Winter Term
Winter Term Catalog
The Winter Term 2027 catalog is now available!
Winter Term applications are open from Wednesday, September 16th through Friday, November 13.
Click into the expandable sections below to explore all of the on- and off-campus offerings for WT 27.
Next to each project title is the project's selectivity type, which is one of three categories: non-selective, selective, or invite-only.
- "Nonselective" projects are first come, first served until all available seats in the project have been filled.
- "Selective" projects have either an online questionnaire in the project application or an in-person interview/audition process as part of the application. Details are provided on each project brochure in the links below.
- "Invite-only" projects are pre-formed groups that are selected by the sponsor. Students who see an invite-only project that interests them are welcome to reach out to the sponsor to discuss how to become involved in their lab, ensemble, or other group ahead of the next Winter Term.
Group projects are designed and facilitated by Oberlin College faculty and staff.
All projects listed in this section will take place on the Oberlin campus.
A Black Opera In Development (selective)
Activism unsealed? The changing politics in feminist publishing (selective)
Advanced Research in Economics (invite only)
AI Lives in Data Centers (selective)
Alexander Technique (non-selective)
Amplify: Podcasting, Public Speaking, and Social Change (selective)
Archival Description Practicum: Oberlin Student Life (non-selective)
Art History Honors Thesis (invite only)
Ashby Business Scholars (invite only)
Beginning Viola da Gamba (selective)
Behavioral Pharmacology Laboratory Experience (invite only)
Bernhardsson Violin Bootcamp (invite only)
Bio-Inspired Materials Research (selective)
Bioanalytical Chemistry Research (selective)
Biochemistry Research (invite only)
Boatbuilding: Embodied Craft and Apprenticeship (selective)
Books without Texts: Visual Storytelling (non-selective)
Calligraphy: Practicing Chinese Characters (selective)
Carbon Neutral CHP Tour (selective)
CILC Project Facilitator (invite only)
Collaborative Coding (selective)
Computational Biology Research (invite only)
Conservatory Intensive Practice (selective)
Continuing Sociological Research (selective)
Creative Arts Research (non-selective)
Dark Matter Research (invite only)
Dear Evan Hanson (invite only)
Decomposing dance, choreographing breath (selective)
Disease Ecology Research (invite only)
Dogs and their People (selective)
Ecolympics 2027 (selective)
Emergency Medical Services (EMT) Course (selective)
Environmental Chemistry Research (invite only)
Environment & Neurodegeneration (invite only)
Flute Maintenance & Repair (selective)
Game Console Customization (selective)
Getting your stitch together - Knitting [Beginner] (selective)
Getting your stitch together - Knitting [Intermediate/Advanced] (selective)
Health Professions Application Boot Camp (selective)
Impact Cleveland: Exploring Leadership in the Cleveland Area (selective)
Inclusive Excellence in Children's Literature (non-selective)
Intensive Ancient Greek (non-selective)
Intensive Elementary Russian (non-selective)
Intensive Latin (non-selective)
Intro to Nonprofit Leadership (selective)
Introspection: The Intersection of Art and Identity (non-selective)
Island Innovators Bahamas Consulting (selective)
Kander Theatre Lab: You Got Older (selective)
Letterpress Printing (selective)
LSAT Test Prep (selective)
Magnetic Materials Research (invite only)
Materials Chemistry Research (invite only)
Mindfulness in Everyday Life (non-selective)
Molecular Biology Research (invite only)
MT Industry Bootcamp (invite only)
MT Showcase Prep (invite only)
New Musical Lab: Raymie (selective)
OMTA (selective)
Opera Character Study (invite only)
Oberlin Political Theatre - Eyes Up: Romeo and Juliet (selective)
OSTA (selective)
Papermaking and Book Art (selective)
Pattern Making for Costume Production (invite only)
Piccolo Intensive (selective)
Practicum in Museum Education (selective)
Preparing a Role: Musical Theatre Role Intensive (selective)
Psychology Honors Research (invite only)
Research in Mathematics (non-selective)
Research in Metamorphic Petrology (invite only)
Research in Structural Geology (invite only)
Research Writing Retreat (selective)
Researching Shirley Graham DuBois' opera Tom Tom (selective)
Studio Art Senior Studio (invite only)
Shakespeare Staged Reading (selective)
Slavic Diction and Art Song (non-selective)
Sommer Research Lab (invite only)
Sophisticated Ladies (invite only)
STRONG STEM Research Intensive (invite only)
Teaching Intensive Elementary Russian (invite only)
The Art of Winter: A Creative Arts Collective (selective)
The People Behind the Pottery (non-selective)
The Promethean Gap: Exploring Creative Possibility within Philosophies of Technology (selective)
Thermal Imaging of Campus Buildings (selective)
Time Travel for Pianists (selective)
Tolkien and the Environment (selective)
Trace Fossils and Sedimentology (invite only)
Wetland Ecology (selective)
Wilderness First Responder Training (non-selective)
Winter Mainstage Production: Christina (selective)
Writing Pedagogy in Practice (selective)
Group projects are designed and facilitated by Oberlin College faculty and staff.
All projects listed in this section will take place off campus, in the United States.
Congressional Internship (selective)
Philosophy for Children (P4C) in Hawaiʻi (selective)
Group projects are designed and facilitated by Oberlin College faculty and staff.
All projects listed in this section will take place internationally.
(De)contextualization: Making Vernacular Photobooks in Malta (selective)
Egypt: Museums, Memory, and Politics (selective)
French Immersion in Bordeaux (selective)
Musical Exchange in Uruguay (invite only)
Seoul: K-Pop Dance & Culture (selective)
Sicily: Crossroads of Mediterranean Civilizations (selective)
Spanish Immersion in Guadalajara (selective)
Tianjin Juilliard (invite only)
TIMARA in Berlin (selective)
Internships can be found with guidance from Career Exploration and Development (CED) or sourced by the student
Individual projects are self-directed learning experiences designed by the student